"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all."
On innovation: "I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."
The only way to know if something is art is to see if it changes the way you think.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.